Frequent collaborators Dycee Wildman and Sarah Saturday discuss the importance of trust in collaborative creative work to bring bigger, better things into the world.
Dycee Wildman and Sarah Saturday were both independent artists who took a leap of trust to collaborate years ago, and the rest is history! Their collaboration began in 2014, and all the lessons learned over various projects have carried them through since, helping them tackle unknown scales, scopes, and create bigger and better things than they ever dreamed of alone. By sharing their projects and collaborations, Dycee and Sarah guide us through the ways trust has contributed to an expansiveness across art and life, creating safe spaces to greet ideas as they come and giving all contributors a stake in a project, creating a greater level of care throughout. The fear of being judged or making mistakes can make us keep ideas inside instead of sharing them, but by keeping an open mind and offering others a safe and nonjudgmental space, we can hope to encourage this practice in those around us as we work together. When we assume the best, we create a safer world for collaboration with a strong foundation that lets artists work together to build anything they can dream of. In conjunction with their talk, Dycee and Sarah invited volunteers to participate in a live trust exercise, collaborating on a piece over the course of the morning—watch til the end to see the end result!
About the speaker
A Nashville native, Dycee Wildman lives in East Nashville. She is a director / writer with a love of the unusual and spooky; focusing primarily on short feminist horror films. Growing up in the south she developed an aesthetic sense that is derived from the natural world, but her interests skew consistently to the grisly. In addition to filmmaking and her day job in advertising, she fosters the arts community by co-founding the Defy Film Festival in 2016.
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